"alcohol" Definition

Definitions for the word "alcohol" from multiple English dictionaries.

1. n.
An impalpable powder.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
2. n.
The fluid essence or pure spirit obtained by distillation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
3. n.
Pure spirit of wine; pure or highly rectified spirit (called also ethyl alcohol); the spirituous or intoxicating element of fermented or distilled liquors, or more loosely a liquid containing it in considerable quantity. It is extracted by simple distillation from various vegetable juices and infusions of a saccharine nature, which have undergone vinous fermentation.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
4. n.
A class of compounds analogous to vinic alcohol in constitution. Chemically speaking, they are hydroxides of certain organic radicals; as, the radical ethyl forms common or ethyl alcohol (C2H5.OH); methyl forms methyl alcohol (CH3.OH) or wood spirit; amyl forms amyl alcohol (C5H11.OH) or fusel oil, etc.
Source: The 1913 Webster Unabridged Dictionary, 1913
5. n.
1 (in full ethyl alcohol) colourless volatile inflammable liquid, esp. As the intoxicant in wine, beer, spirits, etc., and as a solvent, fuel, etc. 2 liquor containing this. 3 chem. Any of many organic compounds containing one or more hydroxyl groups attached to carbon atoms. [arabic: related to *kohl]
Source: Oxford English Dictionary, 1884

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